Bios

Tom Noe is a writer and editor living in South Bend, Indiana. His most recent project was the text of a song cycle on the life of Marie Curie, staged in Virginia in February, 2009. He's currently working on a new play and, of course, more poetry.

Timothy Murphy hunts and farms in the Dakotas.

Tim Kidwell lives in St. Louis where he works as a writer, actor and airline customer service agent. His poetry has appeared in Big Muggy and Eads Bridge and his article, “At the End of the Day,” appeared last summer in the Wall Street Journal.

Steve Potter's poems, stories and reviews have appeared in print and online journals such as; Arson, Blue Collar Review, Chrysanthemum, Drunken Boat, Freefall, Howling Dog, Pindeldyboz, Spout, 3rd Bed and the recent anthology, Paumanok:Poems and Pictures of Long Island. He published and edited the short-lived Wandering Hermit Review. When not reading or writing, he's usually making something to sell at one of the many summer arts and crafts festivals in the Rochester, NY region where he lives.

Born in Vietnam, Samantha Lê immigrated to the United States in 1983. She is currently working on her MFA at San Jose State University. Some of her publications include: My Solitude, a collection of spoken poetry; Corridors, a collection of poetry and short stories; and Little Sister Left Behind, a fictional memoir. She is also the creative director of e33 design.

Rory Waterman was born in Belfast in 1981, but has spent most of his life in England. A number of his poems will be included in a Carcanet anthology in 2011, and poems have been taken by various magazines including Agenda, PN Review and Stand. He lives between Leicester and Bristol, and is studying for a PhD at the University of Leicester.

Rebecca Foust’s books include All That Gorgeous, Pitiless Song  (Many Mountains Moving Prize, 2010) and God, Seed, environmental poetry with art by Lorna Stevens (Sept. 2010). Foust’s poetry won the 2007 and 2008 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prizes and appears in Hudson Review, Margie, North American Review, Spoon River Review, and elsewhere.

Peter Kline lives in San Francisco, where he is a Stegner Fellow in Poetry Writing.  Some of his recent work can be found in ZYZZYVA, Lo-Ball, The Potomac Review, Quiddity, and The Pennsylvania Review.

Peter Austin lives with his wife and three daughters in Toronto, Canada, where he teaches English at Seneca College. Over a hundred of his poems have been published, in magazines and anthologies in the USA (including Contemporary Sonnet, The Lyric, Iambs & Trochees, The Pennsylvania Review, The Barefoot Muse, 14 by 14, The Raintown Review, The Shit Creek Review, Lucid Rhythms, The Chimaera and Road not Taken), Canada and elsewhere. He also writes plays, and his musical adaptation of The Wind in the Willows has enjoyed four productions.<

Lance Levens is a writer/Latin teacher from Savannah, GA. He has has published in Beloit Poetry Review, The Adirondack Review, The Danforth Review, and elsewhere. His chapbook Jubilate was published by the Pudding House Press in 2007. In that same year he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in fiction.